Nest European Toys & Home {a soulemama sponsor}

Photo Credit: Grain HandMade

Greetings from Nest European Toys & Home! 

We are an online shop in North America offering a wide selection of quality handmade natural toys and crafts, books, clothing for kids, and sustainable home goods.  Some of our suppliers include Ostheimer, Drewart, Grimms, Grapat, Norbert Verneuer, Fagus, Ruskovilla and Disana clothing, Walter Kraul, and many, many other lesser known but wonderful individual crafters and small companies with great ecological and social ethos.  We have a growing and great selection of furniture and home accessories.  Our focus is on sustainability and materials that biodegrade and that are sustainable in more than one sense.  The questions of how to move from where we are now in terms of our shared carbon footprint, energy use, and social equity propel us to continue to shape our business and its greater impact.

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Since the last time you were featured on SouleMama, in what ways has your business grown or changed? Is there anything new you'd like to tell us about? 

As our business keeps growing, we keep thinking about the ecological footprint of our activities, and how we can make improvements.  Our focus has always been on biodegradable materials, and selling products that offer good value.  The energy that goes into manufacturing goods should be justified over the lifetime of its existence.  If that's my own creation, it's different, I'm spending time with my children crafting/cooking/creating, I'm working on my skills, I'm feeding my family, I'm modeling for my kids, I'm using my mind and my body in different ways.... it's a different perspective, even though it's also what to do with our precious time and energy as well.  However, when it's goods being actively manufactured, we can take our time to think about the question more, and the effects from all the inputs.  We're working on narrowing our criteria further in this regard.  The other thing we spend a lot of time thinking about is coming from the overall systems thinking I'm usually employing as a parent of a now-turning 6 and 8 year olds, and that is how our time and activities are organized within our family.  We're working on some changes to our business that focus on these two topics, in manners that are accessible to different budgets, and on working harder to act locally and think globally.  

 

We draw inspiration from those around us in all these efforts, but it doesn't escape us that the heart of this kind of work is not found just anywhere on the internet.  The work of the SouleMama blog, and others online, has been for all these years a unique space where people can pause and breathe and share their inspirations for our own intentional living.  Thank you for all these years of sharing and inspiration!  For the families that grew up with you, and the ones coming afterwards, it's been a pleasure.  Sharing five minutes with a warm drink on a Sunday, or some cherished time to go through archives, or whip up some can-do for an art project, all that you've shared already on the blog is with us still.

Photo Credit: Spring and Summer Activities Come Rain or Shine from Floris Books

This weekend, Nest European Toys & Home is generously offering the following gift to THREE lucky SouleMama readers:

A Zero-Waste bundle from our shop or a $50 Canadian gift card to use at nest.ca!

Our book selection has grown wonderfully over the last couple years, and I am so happy to spread the word. We'd like to offer people 10% off books and anything else from our 'Arts & Culture' section on our website from now until Easter. You can use code 'ThankYouAmanda&Katie'

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To enter today's giveaway, leave a comment below (one entry per person, please). Comments will close by 10am EST on Tuesday. Winners will be chosen by Random Number Generator and announced in this post shortly after. Comments closed. The winner is...

Lovely items!!! Thanks for the opportunity to enter for a chance to win this wonderful giveaway!
Posted by: Vicki

This company has wonderful customer service and a great selection! Best wishes Soul Mama!
Posted by: Marcie

oh yes please
Posted by: Beka